Who were expelled from the academies for crazy

All of those who Ginsberg refers to were literally expelled from academies: Kerouac was expelled from the navy under suspicion of mental illness; Burroughs was expelled from his high school Los Amos Ranch School (and, long after this poem was written, from the church of Scientology); Ginsberg himself was expelled from Columbia University for explicitly vandalizing his dorm room — the following line refers to his belief that the cleaning lady was behaving out of anti-semitic spite (for Ginsberg was Jewish) by not dusting his windows, so in sarcastic response would draw swastikas and write his own anti-Semitic messages in the dust of the windows, all of which supposedly got him expelled from his university.

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